THE FIELD. 
Almaviva was played by Miss Agnes Elsworthy who also 
filled the samo r6le in the burlesque which lust week gained 
her ro much applause. On the present occasion she well sus- 
tained her reputation, and in the second piece gave evidence of 
histrionic abilities for which some of the audience could not 
have previously giveu her credit. She Is evidently rising 
ja public estimation. Mr. Vining’s Figaro, was also a 
commendable performance. On Wednesday, owing to the 
Fast, there was no house. 
The Mormons. — A picnic was given for the benefit of 
( he ladies of the corps dramatique of the Deseret Dramatic 
Association on the 5th of December. All the great men of 
the place were present, and Governor Young favoured the 
company by singing “ Como, come, yo saints, no toil or 
labour fear,” which gave great pleasure. On the 31st of 
January a public meeting was held on the subject of the con- 
templated national railroad from the Missouri River to tho 
B hores oftiie Pacific. His Excellency Governor Young was 
In the chair. After prayer by presiding Bishop Edward 
Hunter, Mr. Hydo read a poem, prepared for the occasion 
bv Miss Eliza K. Snow, after a notice of about two hours 
only, and sung by Mr. John Kuy. The meeting then pro- 
ceeded to consider a memorial to Congress on the subject of 
the best route to be selected. — Placer Times. 
Mb Forkest the Tra«edian. — The Trenton True 
American )9 puined to leant that Mr. Edward Forrest, the 
American tragedian, has become a convert to the belief in 
spiritual manifestations. This gentleman is a constant visitor 
upon the Foxes, and most credulously insists upon the cor- 
rectness of the developments communicated by tho rappers 
from “ t'other side of Jordan.” Hereafter it is to be pre- 
sumed that an improvemeut will be introduced into M. For- 
rest’s personation of Hamlet ; the ghost of that prince's 
father will be required to rap out communications instead of 
delivering them in person. 
Oxford — Flex more, Madame Auriol, Herr Dcani, Mr. 
Bradbury, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Saville, and a host of per- 
formers, have been among the Oxonians during the Easter 
week, Saturday being the last day. The Star Assembly 
Booms, where they gave their entertainments, wns well 
attended, and the performances were highly appreciated. 
The dancing Scotchman concluded each evening’s per- 
formance. 
Musical Chit Chat. — We perceive that justly popu- 
lar actress, Miss Woolgar, takes her annual benefit on 
Wednesday next. The attraction of the present popular 
pieces “Two Loves and a Life,” ‘‘The Moustache Move- 
ment,” and the laughable burlesque of the “ Overland 
Journey to Constantinople, as undertaken by Lord Bate- 
man,” have induced the lady not to change tho perform- 
ance on the occasion; and we have no doubt, with her 
numerous admirers, she will have what she deserves — 
a bumper. 
FRANCE. 
(From our own Correspondent.") 
- . PARIS, Thursday, Atril 27. 
i mnn>u!nn . more fl,ltterin g t0 l, 'c English than the 
impression left m the minds of all the French who had the 
honour to approach them, by the bearing, manners, and 
heir r S ? 0f - L e , D,lkeof Cambridge. Lo7d Raglan,’ and 
?S r .i t,n i 8U,shed c ° m P ftn,ons > during their late visit here. 
And though regret has been loudly expressed from Paris 
to Constantinople, that any circumstances should have 
been allowed to create delay at a moment when the fate of 
thousands may depend on the loss of a single day, there is 
some compensation in knowing that this visit has not been 
a mere display of ceremonious courtesy, but a well-timed 
reunion, which, as it were, set the seal of cordiality and 
personal friendliness to the political alliance of the two 
nations. The visit, it is understood, has not been without 
its effect m certain very high quarters, where circumstances 
m ?y. unnaturally, have created strong prejudices. 
I he insolence of the Russian Ambassador at Vienna, M. 
de Meyerndorff, in speaking of the Emperor of the French 
in ms famous letter to Prince Demidotf, published in the 
Op in tone of Turin, hus, it is said, been seriously felt at the 
Tuileries; and it is quite within the limits of possibility, 
that botli the Envoy' and his Imperial Master may have 
cause bitterly to repent this gratuitous piece of imperti- 
nence. The offence is so outrageous that it is worth quot- 
ing the passage textually. After stating that Austria has 
determined to side with Russia — a statement, pur paeen- 
t/itse, exactly the reverse of truth— Meyerndorff expresses 
his sympathy for Austria, and then proceeds 
“ Je craias quo 1 Autriche ne perde la Lomhnrdie; car 
c est lb, suns doute, la vengeance qtie tirera lu Frauce, de 
PurisF* ci ’ acce P tel ' 1‘aUuince de ce grand soltimbanque de 
It is said that within half-an-hour after the Opininne 
had reached Paris, a telegraphic dispatch arrived at 
Vienna from M. Drouyu dc LTIuys, addressed to the 
r tench Minister, requesting him to make inquiries as 
to the authenticity of the letter, through some interme- 
diate party, all public relations between the two diploma- 
tists being of course at an. end. The answer was an 
unequivocal denial ; but so low is tho estimate of Russian 
veracity, since the late famous revelations, that no one en- 
tertains the slightest doubt of M. de McyemdorlV’s having 
written it; the more so, as the Russian functionaries, as 
well as their Emperor, are noted for their habitual inso- 
lence in speaking of the most elevated personages who 
happen to be in opposition to the designs of Russia. The 
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n ,7. h f^I st of tb« Paris spring races came off on Sunday 
nn ,i i?„ „ . dc Mars. The wind and dust wero terrific, 
limit* I CC nn! e nttc,u ^ nnc e spectators was comparatively 
iiistof SztE&Sz ' v0, ■ ,l ' mcMion - 1 s ‘" >joi “ 
*sTf o r° h ^ “ d . moro ‘ i 
Haras" for*threo venr l *i K ' vc " by tho "'Administration do* 
and EnKll.il, stud book..^ '°* e paronta 8° ls s«tdo,vu lu tho French 
M. hold, ick's c Festival . 
M. Mosaelman's c Fnntaalo \ 
;; r ™"" or 
H. Bold lick's I It, m lores * 
M. Moasciman'a f Nicotine Z'.Z'Z'. •» 
THRM PnAlrc “ (Prl ^ d 1 u M C 0 ade *°) tor eoits and miieshrcd 
M. Auinont's Paplllon , 
Hnu^ 0Un L Pt * d0a RonCOnl •> 
D * R iS3kdfor* K “ Tuol,8AHU 'with' ioo‘ francs 
M. do >CeoS’rDa 0 te“ UrCd - No rost,k ' ,lo,ls - , 
Vlscouut Talon s Deceitful . ?, 
Mr. H. Gibson’s Manuhikc II. “ 
Mr. Ueuson’s fhercalna 
Westminster Abbey; or, the Days of the Reformation. By 
TUB Author of “ Whitefriars.” Mortimer. 
This is a novel ol the true metal, aud rings of incidents 
m times fraught with romance of singular interest. The 
research requisite for this work shows that no labour has 
beeu spared to give life and vraisemblance to the subject. 
Hie characters are sketched with a bold and unerring hand; 
nml the religious struggle for supremacy which shook the 
kingdom in bluff Harry’s reign, from end to end, marvel- 
lously worked out. The most cloyed of novel readers will 
Ini', abundance of excitement in these volumes. Crom- 
Wcl '» lioodspere, and Prior Sanegraal, are powerfully de- 
veloped ; and tho attempted escape of the prior, and his 
aeiuh on the same pile with Roodspcre, fearfully appalling. 
look upon the author or authors of “Whitefriars" to 
, . the legitimate successor or successors of the school of 
historical novel writing which elevated the library of fiction 
'vitli the pen of the mighty Sir Walter Scott. 
I an " /ie ^ am P^9 llter - Chtrke, Beeton, and Co. 
1 oor little Gerty ! and her one bright star.” What a 
i charming story! What u lesson for voung and old! full 
aH ,lie vight feelings of the heart. Old True, or rather 
"an Hint, the lamplighter, is a typo of rough good- 
Z* u °t sci r.irc among the town classes as many may ima- 
t P°> of light, is a model of feminine 
m i'.," es . S aud J»umility. The story is religiously moral, 
7' Hftevfcstof a most fascinating quality. 
»- Ufe of Nicholas /. By Edward H. Miciielsen, 
. Phil. D. Spooner. 
v nli how much pleasure we should have turned over the 
, ° , '!? book hud its title been The Life and 
tl' !' °! *' hholas I. It is a very graphic narrative ; and 
lie „| ,’ U ls ot t H°® e 8 cul l e spirits Paul and Alexander, must 
Tl reminiscences for the present despiscr of honour. 
I i nice of Darkness is a gentleman such as the Czar 
■j ! . l, l h® Russias. 
ThJ V Tn * ^ ou:ej ) Kitchen Garden, by P. Null ; and 
' tustralcd Book of Domestic Poultry, by Martin 
■Doylb, next week. J 
fit's Pocket Vocabulary in English and Turkish. 
w, ° , we * ,ave already noticed the above slulliug book, 
fro',!! p r v !. lat » we, k aflcr "oe k » letters are reaching 
x-,.., f complaining of tho want of intreprelcrs, 
and „r i" 11 U r a .'° calling attention to this pocket volume, 
on: tl Z, u *°i d, I e,S to #u PP , y themselves with it. It turns 
i, ( alv crt and his Dragoman, aro tho only two 
vcif.i m Gallipoli who know Turkish ; and Mr. Cal- 
b l , t r s ° ls 20 r<liles fro® Gallipoli, nmnely, at Erin-Keuv, 
tr , ,0, . a,,ei ' c *stlcs of tho Daidan- lies, while (ho EoglUh 
I I ure ' ur above thorn. Ho must, therefore, soon retire. 
'Vnu'd drt Zu !*** a ,,ic " d in 11,0 “ Ar, ny of Gujlipoli,’’ 
"nee v i t0 s<;l,d '! iin out a “ Knight’s Vocabulary” at 
f„ c have lived iuGullipoli(iurscl,cs,andcaut!ierc- 
“th no CC . ,e nftlRy of each a vade mecum. Toaid 
Pip. we have consented to sell the book at “The I 
« eld -O ffice, 408, Strand. 
fact of Meyerndorff' having addressed the letter to Prince 
Demidoft, and who is the husband of the Princess Mathilda, 
the cousin of Louis Napoleon, adds not a little to the sting 
ot the paltry little note. This affair created a greater sen- 
sation here than it would otherwise have done, by all the 
English newspapers containing the famous epistle, being 
stopped at the post-office by the police, and hence not one 
of those journals wns allowed to reach its readers in Paris 
on the day it arrived ; on the following morning, however, 
the police having referred the matter to the higher autho- 
rities, probably to his Majesty himself, the restriction was 
taken off. 
A most inclement change has taken place in the weather 
since the last few days. Sunday was as fine and genial a 
day as any in Juno, or July, but on the following morning 
the wind veered from the south to the north, and since 
then the temperature has been perfectly hyperborean ; the 
results being an alarming increase in influenzas, and the 
return to town ot the elite of the fashionable world, who 
had already flown to their summer retreats. I am informed 
on good authority, that however unseasonable this return 
of winter, the crops will not suffer in the least. 
Letters from the provinces are marked by one dis- 
tressing feature, which, it is worthy of remark, always fol- 
lows a season of dearth of provisions and a severe 
winter — the immense number of fires. In the course of the 
past week no less than ninety fires are reported, the whole 
of which have been discovered to be the work of in- 
cendiaries. 
Accounts received from the Danubian principalities 
mention that the health of the Russian army is in a 
deplorable state, and to this cause the partizans of Russia 
ascribe the success of the Turks against their antagonists. 
The strong reinforcements are required, not so much to 
augment the number of troops, as to fill up the chasms 
caused by disease and death. Not less than 40,000 men 
were, at the last dates, lying in the hospitals, if the wretched 
accommodation for the poor invalids deserves such a name. 
These accounts arc exactly in accordance with those given 
of the Russian troops in the campaigns of 182S and 1S29 
against Turkey. Out of 215,000 men who crossed the 
Pruth against the Sultan, only some 15,000 returned to 
their country, — the plague, dysentery, and foul diseases, 
brought on by their wretched food, having a far larger 
share in the work of destruction than the enemy’s sword. 
But it will suffice to give an idea of the sanitary state of 
the army, to mention that during the single year of 1829, 
more than 200,000 incu entered the military hospitals 
The Theatre FratlCitis is decidedly unfortunate under 
the management of the minister, M. Fonld, who relieves 
M. Iloussftgc of all the cares of directorship. It is true 
that we have lately had a lucky hit in Mdmc. do Girardin's 
little pkee La Joie fait pear, to counterbalance a heavy curt - 
load of five act failures ; the last of which was an adapta- 
tion of Balzac’s novel, Le Lys dans hi Vallee — a romance 
which auybody with half a dramatic idea in his head would 
have seen at once to be impracticable for stage illusion. 
The signal ill success of that affair lias not, however, 
prevented another adaptation from a novel called Mdllc. 
Aisse — in five acts — which was brought out here on 
Tuesday, aud, notwithstanding some effective acting by 
Mdlle. Judith, shared the fate of its predecessors. This, 
however, hadnoteven the honour of bciug honestly damned; 
at the close people looked at each other and went away. 
It was really pitiable to see accomplished artistes like 
Samson, Madame Allan, and their associates, wnsting their 
talents iu endeavouring to infuse life into the plulicudcs set 
down for them. The heroine, Aisse, is a young Circassian, 
who has been redeemed from slavery, when n child, by the 
French Ambassador at Constantinople ; she loves and is 
beloved by a young officer, but sacrifice* her affections 
under a sense of gratitude to her old benefa' tor, and dies 
of a broken heart. All this has been done a thousand 
times with powerful effect on the stage, but it requires the 
baud of a dramatist to do it efficiently ; but hero we have 
only tlic novelist and a pair of scissors, nnd the result is 
overwhelming ennui ! 
RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPHS. 
Cape Town, Fvb. '24.— Tho construction of railways in the 
colony is engaging public attention. 
The Darken Expedition.— Tho meeting this week 
ol the Royal Geographical Society took pluco at tho Rooms, 
m Regent-street. Sir R. T. Muhchison presided. Tho 
portion ol the globe to which the sucioty’s attention wns 
directed on this occasion was the lafbmns of Darien and (lie 
adjacent territory. Amongst tho new mombars admitted 
was Joseph Hume, Esq , M.l* , whose certificate, tho chair- 
men stated, wus signed by nearly the wlmlo of the council. 
1 lie chairman added, that the society was greatly indebted 
to Mi. Hume for obtaining them tho Parliamentary grant 
oi £500 The Chairman announced that the Bollnt Tes- 
timonial Fund had received a considerable nddition from 
Bombay. lie had received u letter from Sir Henry Leuke, 
communicating the result of a meeting presided over by 
Lord Elphinstone, at which £133 hud been subscribed,— 
(Hear). The Secretary then rend an official report on tho 
Isthmus of Darien, communicated through tho chairman, 
by Commander J. C. Provost, R.N., of lior Majesty’s ship 
Virago. Entering on tho Pacific shore, tho commander had 
sailed up the Savanna river, us fur as it was navigable for 
boats, which was about twenty-two miles from Us mouth. 
I lie party then landed, aud commenced their ovorluml 
journey on Tuesday, the 20th of December last. They 
directed their course by compass ns nearly as they could for 
Port Escoces, on tho Atlantic const. It wus necessary to cut 
their way through thick underwood and shrubs, and 
they could uot accomplish more than two or throe miles iu 
a day. They penetrated in this way twenty-six miles, crossed 
several considerable rivers, and asconded a bill 800 feet high, 
but, owing to the density of t ho forest, wore not able to ob- 
tain a sight of the Atlantic. Ou the fifteenth day they were 
obliged to return, and discovered that u guard of four men, 
left at u rancho on their way, hud been murdered by Indians. 
This put an end to the expedition. Mr. Evans Hopkins 
said lie had been iu the country 13 or 14 years, und had 
made a survey of the district for the government. Tho 
chain of the Cordilleras run through tho w hole Isthmus, at an 
elevation of 2,000 or 3,000 feet. Tho most likely place for u 
communication was up Hie river Cliepo, which was navigable 
for 20 miles from tho Pacific, and so across tho Cordilleras 
at a point where the elevation was the lowed. This was tho 
lino which lmd been chosen for tho railway, aud wus deci- 
dedly the best either fora raihvuy or ncanul, l hough he con- 
sidered that tho latter was too expensive to bo utfempted. 
Town Ieleoraphs. — Mr. Whitworth mentions, in his 
account of his visit to the United States at the tiino of the 
New York Industrial Exhibition, that the electric telegraph 
is in America an important instrument of regulation and 
intelligence in the internal administration of towns. Tho 
city of Boston is divided into seven districts, each provided 
with a powerful alarm-bell ; on tlieoccuireueo of a fire some 
one husteus to the nearest (elegrupli stulion (the stations are 
pluced at intervals of 100 rods), where there is an Iron box, 
on opening which access is gained ton handle, and this bciug 
turned indicates at the central office iu what district tho 
fire is ; at the central office tho attendant sets the alarm 
apparatus in motion, and causes the alarm-bells of the seven 
districts to toll as many times as will indicate the district 
where tho fire is, the alarm being repealed ufter a short 
interval. Mr. Whitworth remarks, that if the alarm is 
given in the night, those whose ntteution is awakened ascer- 
tain by tho tolling of the bell the precise quarter iu which 
danger threatens, and, should they have been needlessly 
disturbed, may rest in peace, and find in the knowledge that 
they and theirs at least are in safety, a consolation for 
broken slumbers. 
Extbaordinary Railway Accident. — Tbo perform- 
ance of the Dragoon 6crjoant who cuts uu indefinite num- 
ber of legs of mutton in twain by a single stroke of his sword 
has been outdone by a Yorkshire train. Thu Barnsley 
branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway is crossed 
at Crigglestono on u dead level by tho high road. On Satur- 
day afternoon tho watchmau wus not at bis post, mid while absent 
aspring cart, Hie property of Mr. John Wood, butcher, of 
Wakefield, and having two of his boys driving it, approached 
tho railway to cross the line towurds Wakefield. The boys 
knew the regulations of the company, having frequently 
travelled on that rood previously in the execution of orders, 
but the absence of the watchman was to them u sufficient 
guarantee that no trains were nearly duo. They therefore 
proceeded across tho line. Tho spriug curt wus drawn by u 
pony, and it had no sooner get fairly upon the rails than a 
heavy luggage-train dashed up, und iu u moment the pony 
was struck by the engine aud cut to pieces, fragments of tho 
pour animul being dragged some GO yards up the lino. Tho 
pony was worth £20.* Tho force of tho collision wus so great 
as lo cut tho shafts clean off. The two boys were left sitting 
in the body of tho vehicle quite uninjured, if we except tho 
rough 6huking they experienced from tho collision. — Globe. 
Her Majesty and Prince Albert have forwmdcd to 
Mr. Alfred Eumes, the svoretary of tho Royul Naval School 
at Now Cross, five hundred pounds, to constitute the Prince 
of Wales a life governor, which confers upon his Royul 
Highness, during bis life, the privilege of always having 
one pupil in (be school for gratuitous board aud education — 
such pupils being necessarily the sons of navul or marine 
officers. 
